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Course Description: Pre-Calculus is a college preparatory curriculum that covers various topics such as relations, functions, and graphs; , advanced functions (conics, and , exponential and logarithmic), and graphing; (probability and statistics); and an introduction to calculus.

Course Rationale: This course serves as a prerequisite for Calculus and prepares students for college-level mathematics.

Grades: 11-12

Prerequisites: Geometry and II

Other: 2 Trimesters

Units of Study

Unit Title Length of Study

Polynomials 5 to 6 weeks Exponential and Logarithms 3 to 4 weeks Trigonometry 10 to 12 weeks

Mathematics Core Units

Course Title: __Pre Calculus______Unit Title: Polynomials___ Length of Unit 5 to 6 weeks ______

Grade Level: 11 - 12 Unit __1__ of _4__

SUGGESTED COMMON CORE STANDARDS UNIT BENCHMARKS ASSESSMENTS POSSIBLE RESOURCES What do you want students KEY VOCABULARY How will you know if What possible instructional resources could be COVERED to know, do, and be like? benchmarks have been used? achieved?

P3.1 Solve quadratic-type equations (e.g. e2x-4 ex+4=0) I Can… 1. Daily Homework Technology X intercept by substitution. 2. Surveys …graph Y intercept  Activities with graphing calculator 3. Warm-Up (collected) P3.2 Apply quadratic functions and their graphs in  Overhead projector for notes …I can calculate intercepts Zeroes the context of motion under gravity and simple 4. Exit slips (Post lesson) optimization problems. Roots 5. Quizzes Print Material …create equations that models

graphs and data tables End Behavior 6. Tests P3.3 Explain how the parameters of an exponential or 7. Q & A discussions  Textbook logarithmic model relate to the data set or situation Domain  …use synthetic division to help Writing prompts that have Worksheets being modeled. Find a quadratic to model a 8. factor and solve Range the students explain on  ACT Resource book given data set or situation. how to solve specific  Notes Max problems, how to do a P4.1 Given a function whose roots are Min process, or how to apply Web Resources known or can be calculated, find the intervals on which knowledge to a different the function’s values are positive and those where it is Complex Numbers problem. http://www.math.com/ negative.

P4.2 Solve polynomial equations and inequalities of http://www.kutasoftware.com/freeia2.html degree greater than or equal to three. Graph polynomial functions given in factored form using zeros and their http://www.actstudent.org/sampletest/math/math_01.html multiplicities, testing the sign-on intervals and analyzing the function’s large-scale behavior.

P4.3 Know and apply fundamental facts about polynomials: the Remainder Theorem, the Factor Theorem, and the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra.

Mathematics Core Units

Course Title: __Pre Calculus______Unit Title: Exponential and Logarithms _____ Length of Unit 3 to 4 weeks______

Grade Level: 11- 12 Unit __2__ of _4___

SUGGESTED COMMON CORE STANDARDS UNIT BENCHMARKS KEY ASSESSMENTS POSSIBLE RESOURCES What do you want students How will you know if What possible instructional resources could be COVERED VOCABULARY to know, do, and be like? benchmarks have been used? achieved?

P2.1 Use the inverse relationship between exponential I Can… Technology Ratio 1. Daily Homework and logarithmic functions to solve equations and 2. Surveys problems. …graph exponential and log Annual Change  Activities with graphing calculator 3. Warm-Up (collected) functions  Overhead projector for notes Half-life P2.2 Graph logarithmic functions. Graph translations 4. Exit slips (Post lesson) …create equations to model and reflections of these functions. Decay 5. Quizzes Print Material exponential situations Growth 6. Tests P2.3 Compare the large-scale behavior of exponential …use logarithms to solve for 7. Q & A discussions  Textbook and logarithmic functions with different bases and missing variables Compounded  Worksheets recognize that different growth rates are visible in the 8. Writing prompts that have Logarithm  ACT Resource book graphs of the functions the students explain on how …use the property of logs and to solve specific problems,  Notes natural logs to solve compounded P2.4 Solve exponential and logarithmic equations when how to do a process, or how interest problems Asymptote Web Resources possible, (e.g. 5x=3(x+1)). For those that cannot be to apply knowledge to a different problem solved analytically, use graphical methods to find Domain http://www.math.com/ approximate solutions. Range

http://www.kutasoftware.com/freeia2.html P2.5 Explain how the parameters of an exponential or logarithmic model relate to the data set or situation being modeled. Find an exponential or logarithmic http://www.actstudent.org/sampletest/math/math_01.html function to model a given data set or situation. Solve problems involving exponential growth and decay.

Mathematics Core Units

Course Title: __Pre Calculus______Unit Title: Trigonometry______Length of Unit 10 to 12 weeks ______

Grade Level: 11-12 Page __3__ of __4__

SUGGESTED COMMON CORE STANDARDS UNIT BENCHMARKS KEY ASSESSMENTS POSSIBLE RESOURCES What do you want students How will you know if What possible instructional resources could be COVERED VOCABULARY to know, do, and be like? benchmarks have been used? achieved?

I can… Technology Ratio 1. Daily Homework P6.1 Define (using the unit circle), graph, and use all …create recursive and explicit of any angle. Convert between Difference 2. Surveys  Activities with graphing calculator formulas for arithmetic sequences  Overhead projector for notes radian and degree measure. Calculate arc lengths in Term 3. Warm-Up (collected) given circles. …create recursive and explicit Recursive 4. Exit slips (Post lesson) Print Material formulas for geometric sequences Quizzes P6.2 Graph transformations of the sine and cosine Explicit 5. functions (involving changes in amplitude, period, …find future terms of arithmetic and 6. Tests  Textbook midline, and phase) and explain the relationship  Worksheets geometric sequences 7. Q & A discussions between constants in the formula and transformed Series  ACT Resource book graph. …calculate the finite sums of 8. Writing prompts that have  Notes arithmetic and geometric sequences Finite the students explain on how P6.3 Know basic properties of the inverse trigonometric Infinite to solve specific problems, Web Resources …calculate the infinite sum of a functions sin-1 x, cos-1 x, tan-1 x, including their how to do a process, or how Summation http://www.math.com/ domains and ranges. Recognize their graphs. to apply knowledge to a

Notation different problem P6.4 Know the basic trigonometric identities for sine, …use summation notation and perform operations http://www.kutasoftware.com/freeia2.html cosine, and (e.g., the Pythagorean identities, sum and difference formulas, co-functions relationships, double-angle and half-angle formulas). http://www.actstudent.org/sampletest/math/math_01.html

P6.5 Solve trigonometric equations using basic identities and inverse trigonometric functions.

P6.6 Prove trigonometric identities and derive some of the basic ones (e.g., double-angle formula from sum and difference formulas, half-angle formula from double-angle formula, etc.).

P6.7 Find a sinusoidal function to model a given data set or situation and explain how the parameters of the model relate to the data set or situation.

P5.1 Solve equations and inequalities involving rational functions. Graph rational functions given in factored form using zeros, identifying asymptotes, analyzing their behavior for large x values, and testing intervals.

P5.2 Given vertical and horizontal asymptotes, find an expression for a with these features.

P5.3 Know and apply the definition and geometric interpretation of difference quotient. Simplify difference quotients and interpret difference quotients as rates of change and of secant lines.